Helvetica Bold Condensed substitution in Safari

I've just noticed that on many sites where I would normally see Helvetica Bold for headlines, etc. Safari is now using some form of Helvetica Bold Condensed instead. I've tried toggling some things in Font Book and trashing my Safari plist, but nothing works.
I've seen some similar posts on this forum about font issues in Safari, but nothing has helped.
This problem is unique to Safari. Camino, Firefox, all render fonts correctly.

Try deleting your fonts caches with FontNuke or OnyX +(or with whatever utility you normally use)+
FontNuke <http://www.jamapi.com/pr/fn/>
OnyX <http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html>
-restart your Mac
-open your Font Book->Edit menu 'Select All' fonts - from the File menu select 'Validate Fonts'
-from the Edit menu select 'Resolve Duplicates'
Good luck,
Tom

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coproduct wrote: I think I may have to resort to copying over the Helvetica.ttf file on my macbook, assuming that's possible.
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/usr/share/fonts/OTF/HelveticaLTStd-BoldCondObl.otf: Helvetica LT Std,Helvetica LT Std Cond:style=Bold Condensed Oblique,Bold Italic
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